The Newark History Society encourages original research into all aspects of Newark’s history.

The Newark Archives Project’s online, keyword searchable guide to descriptions of over 3,000 archival collections with materials related to Newark is available at http://nap.rutgers.edu/

The John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers-Newark maintains a very useful online resource guide to primary and secondary sources about Newark, called “The Newark Experience”: https://libguides.rutgers.edu/newark.

The Newark Public Library has created “My Newark Story” with digitized maps, city directories, photographs, and local African American and Latino newspapers at http://digital.npl.org

Charles Cummings’ “Knowing Newark” columns that appeared in The Star-Ledger from March 1996 to December 2005 are available online in a keyword searchable database at http://knowingnewark.npl.org/ [Note that this site still in progress.]